“Parallel reforms and double efforts”: Latvia`s experience reforming administration

Reforming science: methodological and cultural reforms.

Contemporary science has brought about technological advances and an unprecedented understanding of the natural world. However, there are signs of dysfunction in the scientific community as well as threats from diverse antiscience and political forces. Incentives in the current system place scientists under tremendous stress, discourage cooperation, encourage poor scientific practices, and dete...

Reforming Reforms: Incentive Effects in Education Finance in Vermont

Reforming the Veterans Health Administration--Beyond Palliation of Symptoms.

Governance Reforms in Public Administration and Good Governance Applications in Sports Administration

From the beginning of 1980s on, a transformation period that has affected almost all of the public administrations in the world and made a radical innovation on the basis of traditional public administrations, new expectations in the public transportations have come up especially with triggering of global dynamics. Because deficiency of constant slowing down bureaucratic structure of traditiona...

The quality of care in post-soviet Uzbekistan: are health reforms and international efforts succeeding?

The idea of healthcare quality improvement (QI) and disseminating evidence-based practice has been attractive for local health policy makers in Uzbekistan since the early 2000s. One aspect in need of discussion is the degree to which the country's healthcare system is open for the proposed QI activities. Funding of health care resulted in building and equipping rural primary care practices, tra...